GASSIT GARAGE
RUBBER NECKING
Our former tyre development rider tells us the bits he’s allowed to from his past life
RARE MOTORCYCLES GO UNDER THE HAMMER AT SHANNONS
RG 500 and RC30 among 11 rare classic motorcycles due to go to auction in November at the Sydney Spring Auction
CLASS BLOWER
In the mid-1930s a pair of plucky young speed freaks set about breaking the Brooklands 500cc lap record
KAWASAKI KR-1S v SUZUKI RGV250
The 250cc class erupted back in the 1990s thanks to these two incredibly light yet powerful two-stroke pocket rockets
WICKED NINJA
If the ‘baddest man in the whole damned town’ Leroy Brown wanted a motorcycle, he might well go for a ZX-12R
STARS AND SLIDES
Captain America – patriotic super soldier, leader of the Avengers, and now inspiration for custom tracker builds
LIVIN' THE DREAM
Having both custom bikes and a custom shop, John Ryland is 2-for-2 in the dreams-made-real stakes. But he had one left
TWO SMOKING BARRELS
Royal Enfield turned its twin-cylinder 650 into a nitrous- fed dragbike with double the poke, then tossed us the keys
V-TWIN TRIBUTE
Ray Drea created this café racer in honour of his mentor, Willie G Davidson
AGRO AGO
Building a Giacomo Agostini tribute bike? Then you better do it right. And it doesn’t get much more right than this angry MV from Deus Ex Machina
The Four Runner
Eighty years ago, Piero Taruffi became the first rider to surpass 170mph. His supercharged Gilera the blueprint for every inline four-cylinder engine ever since.
THE GP BIKE THAT TIME FORGOT
How one man’s love for Lambretta uncovered the Italian marque’s little-known but highly innovative grand prix aspirations